The Sun. — London, England, 1826-09-07 00:00:00

Afirtifters, by those of their measures which bear directly on tyre currency, and through it upon a certain portion of the trading( classes, have raised some murmurs against their own policy, which, we trust, they will have the wisdom to disregard. The apparent object of the King's Government has lately been to reduce the circulating medium of Eng land within such limits as would fairly correspond with the real wants of her commerce, that commerce being measured by the number of sales and purchases which were culled for by actual consumption. The purification of the cur , rency was a natnraj step towards the extinction of that species of credit which had not represented substantial property, or promoted useful industry, but which had been concocted between two descriptions of men,'neither of which had any thing, or at least not much, to lose, and who therefore traded, as may he said, " on velvet." One speculator -made enormous quantities of cotton .or other goods ' for which there was no natural demand , but fo r which he forced a temporary demand, by sellin them for pricesworthless none butworthless articles could-be manu factured, or none but 'foals could think of 'being remune- Wed. His fellow or correlative speculator engraved and signed whole cart-loads of paper promises to pay gains of toomly an hundred times greater than he possessed. Ile accommodated his calico friend with its many of these written promises as the other wanted, taking equivalent:— that is, nihilo-valent—promises in return ; and m. this bar ter of reciproCal rubbish, the paper , desperado had a good deal the Lest of it, inasmuch as lie bade sort of security viz. the stock in hand at the calico man's work-shop, for a part, however small, of his debt ; whereas, he of the cotton. .mill.had not the shadow of a prospect that his banking petrol) would pay a shilling of the notes with which lie obliged his customersi Thus, on side, forced sales at low prices were thrown upon the public, of goods for which the unfortunate spinners, weavers, &c. were hardly paid such, wages as would keep them from perishing; and on the other, the. lame paper of the mock banking companies assumed the uttrilmws of the . King's coin; Was diatnbuted in wages, was dispersed over the country, generating new portions rd diseased confidence every day, encouraging fresh adventurers in the bank system, pressing itself on all classes of speculators in all the diversities of manufacturing anti c commercial business, positively raising the price of bread, lowering comparatively the wages of labour, main taining rents unnaturally high, and banishing the precious metals. We do not say that Ministers have conducted skilfully each experimental measure by which they hoped to accomplish a salutary change in that most corrupt system. But for the end itself, we' have from the first moment at which it came under discussion, stood forward to recommend and to applaud it. There is no chance that articles of any description should have their real value de fined or comprehended, when they arc paid, for in a cur rency, the amount, and consequently the worth, of which depends upon the audacity or. cupidity of 1,00Q individuals in as many quarters of the kingdom. It is impossible that honest merchnots or tradesmen, anxious to make a fair pro lit by their goods, and to leave a decent fortune to their children, shoola be able to exist in competition with ad- venturers,' who look not beyond the flashy bustle, of the hour—.-eonuriencing paupers, aiming only to appear for a flirt! like rich or thriving men, but without a serious thought of ever becoming so; anticipating carelessly their exhibition in some not very distant Gage/le,: and ending us they had started--paupers. We say broadly, that if it has been the design of Ministers to attack these two branches, of illegitimate and destructive commerce, they merit the support of every wise man in the community.— They have but applied the caustic to the fungus, and have le.t the sound flesh to the healing course of nature. The branch bunks, • of which Government has • been strongly recommending the list: and extension to the Bank of Englund, van, we hope, under the principles which are likely to regulate them, not conchtee to the obstruction of Any fair or profitable industry. They are not to allow any credit accounts. This will probably be a general role, not rigorously enforced in cases of justifiable exception ; but one by which the besetting vice of over production must he, in a great majority of instances, very sensibly and usefully checked. Upon the whole, when we look at the degree in which the manufacturing population has heen foreed forward and multiplied, by that eagerness of avarice to which the paper system was so perniciously sub servient, and at the 'circumstances through which revul skins in trade have not only been so much extended, but •been aggravated into a mass of sufferings the most afflict ing to the human race, we are not afraid to express a wish - , treasenable, perhaps, in the ears of those Who reason about their fellow creatures no otherwise than as " instru ments of production"-- , that England were .someWhatless of a smoky workshop.—somewhat more of a nursery for hardy peasants—than for the pale, precarious, and helpless multitudes by which the heated atmosphere of our over grown manufactories is peopled, and through whom the least thietnation. Of a foreign market is visited in the dreadful shapes of turbulence, fever, and famine, upon this Country.— Times. We refer our readers to an account in another column of the proceedings at the 'Salisbury Petty Sessions, on Tuesday licit, as affording a specimen of the process by which ; the poor of England are daily manufactured into criminals. A number of men, women, and children, had invaded the woods of the Earl of Pembroke, at Gravely, for the purpose of gathering nuts, which the poor through out the country have almost every where been in the habit of doing time out of mind. A board forbidding the pm- tiee haul, _however, been put up, though it seems most of the parties alleged they did not know of the notice. The Magistrates deeming this invasion of the Earl of Pon ' broke'S'property no moral offetiee, fined' the parties only Gd. each, but then the expellees of the information • amounted to nine shillings--a formidable sum, indeed, to persons out of employment, ttad receiving • only front the parish allowance. The alternative is imprisonment ; and thus we have at once a crowd of recruits for our felon po pulation. If the people of the agricultural districts had not been reduced to this wretched condition, under the . abuse of the. Poor Laws, and the re-aetion of Irish mis govermnent on liiigland, they might still bear up, us they did in better day., against the occasional putting in force of some.of the numberless laws ' imposing penalties for what are often,. as in the above ease, ?tot moral rfenees. To suppose that they can steer clear of constant Mime tio»smf the laws is absurd, beetuise ' as we have already observed, there is' hardly an act agains t which a penalty is not denounced in some sleeping or waking statute. A person who is. n . the receipt of good g *Il es will not ' of ,.curse, a11OKr himself to be imprisoned for the non-pay ment'of a trifling penalty, and nine or tell shillings of fees. Hence, when the -labourers were not paupe rs,t h e ve xations to which they were oeeasionafly expose d m a y b e ' . said to have pressed Nhtly On th em . B ut i t is nnw far . otherwise with them. Ile who is wholly. without propert y its without the means of paying lin . e . s t an d i t ,shouid he derstood that a fine , however sma ll, i0, in reality a sentence of impritionment. The problem of preserving , or d er in a population of paupers is, in reality, very difficult. Where a population gen erally, is in possession of property, fi nes and penalties forth a most efficient instrument in the ham s ilveziomne't of offer ; of the Magistrate. But, with paupers, you have to choo se b e t w een complete, impunity, end the ev o dery of all degrees into criminals. You i through the pocket, and you must have constant recourse, to the lash, imprisonthent, and the tread-mill, and these soon come to be' disregarded, and frequency of . punish. ' tient extinguishes shame. We a re far from say ing that the Earl of Pembroke has not a right to preserve his nuts, w theirs to be however generally his neighhool's.IPaY -° „ taken by the poor; hot sa y , that the Earl or Pemb ro ke can only in such a neighbonthood put the law in force, by breaking down the barriers 'which form the best safeguards of the rich... Tile time is fast approaching, when the pea santry will be utterly unassailable by Secondary punish ments, and when the gentry will deeply repent their having wantonly sported with those feelings of honest pride, the 'eitlitence.of which in the poor forms the best security for the persons and property of the rich. They may cover the face of the country with prisons and houses of cony tion,:litit these will form but a poor substitute for the prin eiples which they have extinguished. The spirit of the labouring classes (for we will not call them poor) was strikingly evinced in several districts of the country, yet exempt from the abuses practised under the Poor LaU , s, wheit they were subjected to severe trials by laws the most oppressive, and the most unjust in principle ever pasied by an unthinking and unfeeling Legislature. 'We allude to the different laws for raising militia, armies of reserve, &c., p'assed during the late war, which were, in fact, laws for taxing the poor beyond their share for the . exigencies of the country. Though the demand for men raised the price to an extraordinary height, we know that in many parts of the country, the labourers drawn to serve almost always provided substitutes, the price of which they con trived to pay. The sacrifices and exertions these men made were surprising; and a heart4ending spectacle it was, to see the poor man, after having, by several years' savings, obtained furnitnre anti a cow, forced to sell them, - and even to pledge his future earnings for the deficiency. But with a population possesSed of some property, and with the pride which the possession 'of a little property never fails to give, how easy is it to maintain order. When it becomes necessary to restrain their transient ebullitions, or to correct them :for their offences, ample means are always at hand, without reducing them to the level of the criminal, and sending them to abodes from which they emerge initiated in the most nefarionti arts.— MOrning Chronicle: Whether the Companies, which have been established here, for the purpose of carrying on, extensive mining operations in South America, have been conducted pru dently or imprUdently, we have not the means of ascer taining; but there his nothing chimerical or visionary in the principles on which they proceed ; and, from the amount of capital which has been invested in them, and the num ber of persons whose interests are more or less connected with their success, they may be considered as public Insti tutions, whose . proceedingwought to be made the subject of fair observatIon. We are not among those who deem a Joint Stock Company to be, in its very essence, a nuisance, or an absurdity. How many of our own Institutions are of that nature ? How many of the great works, which contribute to our comforts and to our prosperity, have hien accomplished, and are still maintained by Joint Stock AssoCiations ? There are sonic operations which a private purse cannot with prudence venture upon ; and to that class of spbculations mining must often belong. Prom the very nature of mining operations there must be frequent a great outlay of capital, before any return can be expected. The period of that return cannot, in any particular instance be anticipated with much certainty; and several successive trials may turn out unprofitable, though the result of a great number may, on the whole, be very beneficial. — The want of economy, which is too apt to characterize Joint Stock Companies, is, undoubtedly, - a ganger to be feared ; but, in cases of this kind, it is more than court- terbalanced by other advantages; and the mischiefs of it may always be, to a considerable degree, checked by pru dent regulations. 'Whether the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association, whose embarrassments have of late attracted so much notice, hal, been deficient in economy, and wise management, we do not presume to say. There may be ground of suspicion ; but whether the Directors might or 'might not' have acted with more prudence, of this we are sure, that the conduct of the Shareholders is not such as beComes men who must be supposed to have entered into a splendid project with the purpose of carrying it on ac cording to the plan which was laid before the . public.— New Times and Representative. Saint James's-street presents at this time a melancholy proof of the progress of luxury and vice among the higher ranks of society, and above all, of the degrading progress of that thirst for gaining which levels all distinctions, and: sinks men who are otherwise qualified to shine in life, often below the baseness of the. optimum' felon. Two large re i,eptacles of the kind to which we allude, are in the act of being pulled down for the purpose of being enlarged ; one of them, that den of infamy and pollution, where more for- tune and character have bCen sacrificed than in any similar temple of corruption with which the country has ever been cursed. This, we must admit, is a mortifying result of the pains the press has been at to stem the torrent of vice, and iiflords too convincing a proof of its power over thoselfish and unsocial propensities of mankind. However, nil des perandum will still be our motto and our principle; and the increasing power of the hydra will only induce us to redouble our -efforts to crush and to defeat it. Without confining our observations to this sink of infamy alone, we should say that the:club mania of the present age carries with it any thing but. a favourable augury among the signs of the times. Not that we would be understood to object to associations of men for social purposes, more especially if they combine literary or other.rational pursuits. But, unfortunately, with one or two exceptions, the fashionable clubs of the present day are devoted almost wholly to gaming, in some or all of its various shapes; and are places where the young are initiated in vice, and where the more advanced in life close their days in utter disregard of the social,, moral, and religious feeling. Anxious and careful as the managers mid keepers of inoht of: these Places are to conceal their goings on from .the prying eyes of the world, they must be destitute of common sense if they imagine that. they can effectually do so. : In fact, they live over a mine, to which losers, cast-off servants, and -various other grades of connection, can at any hour apply: the match; and there is, in fact, no doubt, but that large sums of money are continually paid to hush and silence those whose .disclosures would he of an awkward nature. For ourselves, warring as we do against the system, we have hitherto abstained froM directing the powers of the press against individuals ; but at the same time, if the system will not fall under a general attack, it must be dealt with 'hi detail, and we will then show these people that we know more of their proceedings than they have probably-given- Inv credit fora If we have abstained from telling the customers of a banking house . which of these hells one of its junior„ partners frequents, or the Bishop of, London, at which - of them more than One Reverend Divine spends his sabbath-days, and his week-day nightti—if we have forborne to tell the ne glected wife, or the heart-broken mother, where the worthless husband and the son are passing in Wino , and splendour the hours which at home are devoted to mi sery, anxiety, and want—it is not because we could not do so, but from a fear that the pang we should inflict would reach the innocent, ,and not the guilty, and in the hope, which we do nor yet abandon, that public shame and general censure would in time put an end to the means of pursuing courses so fraught with individual ruin and national disgrace. A corroboration of the anti-social nature of clubs has of late been furnished, in a way to which we can of course but slightly allude. It is, how ever,,indisputably true that the greater number of persons Whose names have come before the world in the most de testable forms, have been members of one or more of these - societies; so true is it, that any symtem from which the presence of that sex is. excluded Whose influence engen ders &very right feeling, is liable, in its very nature, to render men the hate, 'the scorn, and outcasts of the coin munity..-4tiorning Herald; -Mr. John Wilks, jun., who has been so much be fore the public l a tely, f or hi s s h ares i n c oncocting and conducting t h e B u bbl e C ompan i es, an d w h o has also been returned by the Borough of Sudbury, to adorn the new _House of Commons, had the following ad vertiganient published some ti me ago on the cover of the Jt:vangelical Magazine :--." Mr. John Wilks, first respectability, lias a v ' jun. hiving received into partnership a solicitor of the , scanty inhis o c larticled clerk, vilio may board and lodge in his family, and receive the benefits of moral and rdigious super intendance. Premium 3501. Apply to Mr. John . . ffi )c for an Wilks, jun., solicitor, 39, New Broad-street."—Bury Gazette. MANSIC1N,HOUSE —Yesterday Mr. Yirbeke, as Solicitor to Mr. Lawford, the Secretary of the Welsh Iron Company, ap plied to the'Lonp Kt von for a warrant to search the premises of Mr. Wilke, jun., M.P. for Sudbury, who, he stated, feloniously detained some property belonging to the Welsh Iron Company.' Mr. Hobler, the Chief Clerk, asked what was the nature of the property? Mr. Verheke replied, that it was an account-hook. Mr. Hobler said, that he presumed the value was ideal. Mr. Verheke assured the Lord Mayor that its value to the Company was by no means ideal. Mr. Lawford, the Secretary to the Committee, was sworn, when he stated, that _when the Company was founded, there was •• ••••• • •••• •• ••••-• •• • • book belonging to the Committee, whiith was , kept , for the pur pose,of entering all transactions relative to the issue and transfer of shares. This book was taken away by'Alr. Wilk% who had , it. not Sims returne d The Loan Maros asked whether Mr. Wilk* was not Solicitor to the Company ? Mr. Lawford replied, that be was Solicitor to the Company then, but was not now. The Loan Maros saidMr.Wilks might, under those circum-. stances, elaini a degree of authority with respect to it. At all events there was no felonious taking of the property. Mr. Verbeke admitted that his Lordship's view of , the case would be correct if the hook had any relation to the then 'official duties of 'Mr. Wilks, but it had nine whatever. The Loan Mayon asked whether Mr. \Vilka was not a share- Mr. Verbeke replied in the affirmative. • The Loan Mayon said, in that case, being a partner, the dif ficulties were considerably increased. Ile wished to know whe ther Mr. Verbeke was prepared to cite any case where a search warrant was issued for the recovery of any property that was not originally taken feloniously. Mr. Verbeke said, that at present he was not prepared with such a case ; but he submitted, that a party having got property in his possesion legally, might subsequently make a felonious con version of it. The LORI) AfAYOR recommended a civil action. Mr. Verbeke Said, this retiree bad been adopted as the shortest and most salutary4 . _ The Loan l► iami. suggested, that if it should appear that Mr • Wilke had acted improperly, he was amenable to the Court of King's Bench, of which he was an officer. • Mr. Verheke replied, that the Court 'of King's Bench would not take cognizance of acts which were not performed in his ca pacity of attorney. The Loan MAYOR asked whether application had been made to Mr. Wilks for the return of the book.? Mr. Lawford said, that he had applied within these few weeks for it, but Mr. Wilks denied that he hitd it. Mr. Lawford de clared that he saw him take it. Another witness came forward, and said he had seen it in Mr. Wilka's possession. The Loan MAYOR said that he should readily grant a search warrant, if he man , that the law would juStify him ; but Mr. Ver beke himself admitted that he did not consider the property was originally taken feloniously. His Lordship, therefore, on this ground, and also on the ground that Mr. Wilks was a partner, dismissed the application. GUILDHALL.—Mr. Fred. Win. Stephens, a young man of respectable exterior, was charged, before Sir PETER !Ankle, Knt. yesterday, with wilfully cutting the silk pelisses of two la- dies in Bartholomew -fair, on Tuesday night. The first complainant, Mrs. Sarah Currey, the wife of a pur ser in the Royal Navy, now. on service, stated, that she resided at No. 5, Buckingham-street,: in the Strand, and that she came to the fair, accompanied by three young. ladies, in a hackney-coach, and they were set down at Smithfield-bars, at about ten o'clock at night. They had not been in the fair above five . minutee, before one of her friends called out that a . man was cutting her: She exclaimed " Where? Show me the man?" The lady pointed to the prisoner, and witness immediately seized him by the collar. A man, whom she supposed to be an associate of the•prisoner's, struck her over the arm as if he would break it, upon which she called out, if the prisoner had done her injury, she would never leave him till she had found an officer. A crruf rescue wan then setup, and a dozen fellows jostled her about, but the maintained her grasp, and declared that nothing should make her lose it, and she cried out for assistance till au otlicer came up and took hint in charge. Her pelisse was cut in five places, and the silk alone, of which it was made, cost her four guineas. Mrs. Currey here produced the pelisse, and the Alderman di rected her to put it on, that he might judge whether it was wit to get at her pockets; but it appeared that it was quite in the back of the garment. - - - Miss Eliza Wellesley, now residing at No. 5, Buckinghan street, stated, that she was walking with Mrs. Currey, and saw the prisoner cutting her pelisse. When the alarm was given, some of the party tried to prevent her from assisting her friend, and One man put his knee against her hip to push her away. Miss Ann Brown said, she was walking behind Mrs. Currey, and felt some one twitching her frock, as if cutting it. She saw the prisonerairaw away his hand from her person, and while she was looking to ascertain what mischief he had doue, she lost sight of him, but on looking forward to inform Mrs. Currey se veral holes had been cut in her frock, she saw the prisoner again, then engaged in cutting Mrs. Currey's pelisse. She called out to Mrs. Currey, but she was soon separated by the prisoner's companions, who prevented her from going into the Compter, by farming a circle around her, out of which she could not pass. One of them struck her on. the back, and when her friends can* out • of the Compter, one• of the fellows asked what would be done to the prisoner, and upon being , told that could not he known, be and some others gathered up handfuls of mud, and bespattered witness's clothes. . Miss Helen Lee, of Euston-crescent, said she was One of the party; saw the prisoner cutting Mrs. Currey's pelisse, and pointed him out to her. The prisoner looked in her fare, and said '• Me ! you are a liar." Atterwell, the officer, produced a small clasp knife, and a smell pair of scissors, the handle of which was formed of two penknives, with a sheath for the point of the scissors that it might be carried in the pocket. These had been found upon the prisoner. th in his defence, stated, that when the officer took him, kno S s t v e i l ng en he had a pair of scissors in his waistcoat pocket., he de sired him to observe that his coat was buttoned, so that if he had the scissors in his hand, he could not have returned them to his pocket. He denied the charge,, and stated that he was clerk to Mr. Braddock, a merchant, in Fenchurch-street. Mr. Hubbard, clerk to Mr. , Braddock, said he was desired by his employer to state, that the prisoner was a most' regular and correct young man. He held a highly confidential situation in that house, where 50,000/. to 100,0001. was turned in the course of the year. With respect to the peculiar form of the scissors, he could assure the Alderman similar ones were in general use fir office purpreies'about Alincing-lane; and those now produced the prisoner had used above a twelvemonth. Mr. Stephen's, the father of the prisoner, insinuated that the whole of the ladies, who certainly were attired in a somewhit showy style, were of a doubtful character, and their oaths wefe not, ther e f ore , wort h muc h ; b u t Si r P eter c h ec k e d hi m Or mooing such an opinion upon them without the least inquirt. Mr. Stephens admitted his son went to the fair in company wi/s three or four other young men, one of whom (a brother) he wild* to be examined. • The Alderman then said, •he war at Marylebone office a few: days since when a man was charged with poisoning. He; as well as every one in the office, were quite satisfied upon the first hear ing ., that he was g u ilt y ; b ut, f ortunate l y , h e was no t t h en com mitted for trial. The ca s e found its way into the newspapers ; witnesses, in conseq uence , came forward as to the character of the accusers and the accused, and, ultimately, every one Wits as much satisfied of the man's innocence at' they were before of his guilt. The present case was a strong one against the prisoner, who seemed to have intended • mischief, not robbery ; but he would, nevertheless, remand him till Saturday, and in the mean time fit t h ea Geo.r, spoi l, " publicity might produce some result as unexpected in this case as cut, p 2 11% it (lid in that t o w hi c h he alltled• 'rh 16,noareteddefatheatthaeny clothes pell person o w f ho an s o h t o her idi , 1 wilfully /should be judged guilty of felony, and he liable to• seven years' tratumertetion. The whole of this statute,lowever, was repealed hy Mr. Peel's act of last session,, and there now exists tut'expresa provision against this offence. The Small Trey's** Act (14 Geo. IV., e. 56), however, will reach thecase, as it extends tn wilful injury comMitted upon f' real or personal prop erty o f an nature or kied,a0ey„. und er the value of .5/.,L and' thei offender may be ordered to, 1. mikes reasonable satisfaction and' cora * pensat o to the party A 65 leV U t , And In default be, aommitted to the House o f Corrects,, for three months, BOW-S TREET.---Yeeterday morning, at an early hour, xi appliattion was made at this office, for an officer to attend at the Naming of the trunk of a gentleman who was dr owne d a t Landon bridge on , Tusialay evening. It appeared from the statement of the person who made the:application; that the deceased and semi other gentlemen had just errived from Margate, in one of the" vet .sele that ply. to that l p a c e, and they had ta k en a watermau 4 wherry for the purpose of conveying them anti their luggage to town. Unfortunately, in passing under Lencion-britige, the boat upset, owing to the violence of the current, and it was with eon, siderable difficulty that those on hoard, with the exception of one gentleman, who never rose to the surface of the water, were saved. Sir John Scott Lilly, a Magistrate residing at Fulham, was among those who were luckily rescued from a similar fate. The trunk that belonged to the gentleman who was unfortunately drowned, was picked up at the Surrey side of the river, and as no person knew the owner's name, it was thought advisable to break it open, in the presence of an officer, in order to ascertain the name and address of the deceased, whose body had not been found when the applicant left that part of the river where the accident occurred. The Magistrate referred the applicant to the officers of Union hall, the trunk not being within the jurisdiction of this office. - QUEEN-SQUARE.--Mr. William Royal, a boat-builder, residing on Millbank, was brought up on a warrant preferred against him by his wife for eruel treatment towards her. It appeared from the evidence, that the defendant, on Sunday afternoon, came home intoxicated, and insisted on taking the money for the boat's hire ; he demanded his wife's chair, which was given up to him, but his conduct being so violent, she left the room, when the defendant followed, and struck her two blows, and worked himself into such a violent passion, that Mrs. Royal said she was in bodily fear. Three witnesses spoke to the irritable conduct of the defendant. Mr. Gasooate said he should require good bail from the de fendant, and ordered him to enter into sureties, himself in 150/. and three other persons 601. each, and give ttienty-four hours' notice. MARYLEBONE—=Charles Phillips, a lad, was charged by Mrs. Gooding, of No. 16, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, with having stolen a two-pack card-box. Mrs. Gooding, whose husband is a fancy stationer, stated, that on Saturday evening, between eight and nine o'clock, she heard a noise in the shop, and looking through the hack-parlour window, she saw some one there ; it was either a man or a boy, but she (lid not see his faec. As she entered the shop he left it, and she missed the article before-mentioned, which had been standing on the counter. She was very much alarmed, and screamed out for assistance. Mr John Wilkie, an upholsterer, of No. SO, Naesau-street, was passing along Mortimer-street at the tithe, and hearing the scream, he looked round ; he saw the prisoner come out of the shop, place the box down on the grating of the• aria, and run away. He ran after him, and had him in full view until he was taken by a watchman. The box left upon the grating was proved to be the same which was taken from the counter, and the prisoner was com mitted for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—One of those brutal vaga bonds called costermongers, who go about the streets with don kies and panniers to pilfer what they can catch, and followed, al ways close at their heels, by a fierce half-bred fighting dog, which is ready and trained to fly at any person on whom they may think fit to set him, was brought to the office by two of the Bow-street patrol, charged with suffering his canine companion to bite a poor boy desperately in the leg. The patrol stated that this ruffian set his dog to attack another dog that was much smaller than •his, in the street, and having thus infuriated the animal, he began to fly at every thing that ap proached him, and this poor boy having accidentally passed at the time, the dog, quite unrestrained by his master, flew at the boy, and made his teeth almost meet in his leg. Here the boy showed his leg, which was very severely bitten. The fellow, who gave, his name John Honor, residing in Short's-gardens, St. Giles's, said that the whole thing was an ac cident ; that his dog was the quietest dog in the universe ; but as he had "scratched" the lad, he was willing to pay the doctor's charge, and to make a compensation to the boy, if he would call at where he lived. . . . Mr. DYS1t said, if his proposition were sincere, it wactolerably fair, although there was no excuse.for his brutality or the fierce ness of his dog; his best way, then, would be to go along with the constable and the boy, and show the latter where It was ex actly that he did • live. This the fellow consented to ; but when he got some distance from the Office, he endeavoured to make his escape, and struck the constable, who, however, after a desperate struggle, secured him, and brought him back again to the Office, where he was in stantly ordered to be locked up for want of bail, for the assault on the constable. TOWN-HALL—Joseph Lubourne, whose case has been twice before the public, for a felony upon Mr. Crew, a hoot and shoe maker in the London-road, was brought up for final hearing. On this occasion the wife of the prisoner, who had repaired to Loudon from Newcastle, on hearing her husband's unpleasant situation, was introduced to Mr. Alderman SIAISTII, by a gentle manly young man, and assured by her, that previous to the ma lady (a mental tine) that now afflicted him, a snore just man was not known. Mr. Alderman SMITH replied to this lady, who offered con vincing proofs of her respectability, that he felt gratification in her appearance, inasmuch a. he was bound as a Magis trate to secure the public from depredations committed under such a calamity, and required alone her word of lidnour that he should be restrained from the commission of similar depre, dations to those he was charged with, to surrender him into her care. Mrs. Lahourne pledged her word that she would see to his im mediate removal home, and to the prevention of any similar occur rence. She then paid Mr. Crew the value of the bouts, and took the object of her errand under her protection. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday the defendants, John Standish, Hurley Abbott, Dick Otitis, — Gurney, awl Dixon, all of whom were brought up to this office the flay before, except Cur tie, on a charge of hav►ng assaulted three officers of the Quirt of Requests, attended before the sitting Magistrate, M. SWABILY, EN., for the purpose of answering the charges alleged against them, the circumstances of which appeared in our police report the preceding day. On. the defendants' entrance into the office, the Magistrate re primanded Curtis for not attending to the 'warrant that had been served upon him by Grassmith, the officer. He .observed, that iu consequence of his (Curtis's) non-attendance, the case was ob liged to be postponed to the inconvenience of. all the parties con cerned. " The Pet of the Fancy" most humbly apologized for not at tending on the previOus day, saying, " Your worship, I was compelled to leave town, and I confess it was to see the turn-up down in Hertfordshire, between Sharpe and Reed; but I hopes you will forgive me, Sir, and I am very sorry, very sorry, indeed,' that any business should have been postponed on my account." The Magistrate was satisfied with the " Pet's" apology, and gave him a word or two of advice as to the necessity in future of his relinquishing Emery other business, particularly in the fighting line, when a warrant was issued against him. The complainants then repeated the previoui 'statements of the assaults committed upon them by the defendants, and produced some of their 'clothes stained with blood as evidences Of the violent 'conducrpursued towards them on the 29th of August. Standish was'now called upon to state what' defence he bad to make fin- conimitting so violent' -an assault upon 'the officers of the Court of Requests ? Ile 'declared that the whole of the facts were grossly exaggerated, and said, that on the day in question, as he was returning home over Rotherhithe-bridgt, tke complainants, whom he knew to be officers of the Court of Requests, approached him, and intimated that they had an mention against him for 4/., at the suit of, one Saunders. On . being informed of the business, he was anxious to settle it on the spot, but not having . sufficient in his pocket at the time, he re quested them to accompany him to his house, where the demand should be forthwith discharged. '"No," laid they, "We won't; pay us now, or we shall soon make you." Standish exClaimed, that it was hard they would. not agree to step as far as his house, for his accommodation, but'they refused.to listen to any terms; and proceeded to drag him along like * common felon. Some of his (the defendant's) friends, who happened to, be at a short distance from the spot, andsobserving the scandalous manner in which he was treated, came forward, and even offered to pay the debt themselves, rather than see him abuse d, but all t heir offers and i i i i 3 i l m ici a ta b t o i t o it n , s had no effect upon the complainants, who s'ragged pay them whatever money they &l ore the ce o n a t t ett o edi ff ian h h i i i iinh b o a u c ti k siee n e n e t e l owrm l t :e iLo a cei t .io t o n edr g:I t i hi: h ror r ecr o b ke l h e declared, to pull him (t i he defendant) loose from them and his adversaries, who .txmducted themselves mo i r l e: ch l a ik rd e s men (one i: l i f house, his (Standish's) th t e i" co it to ' • 4 p wg u ia N fei n s u r i et t pma of T a : ini m yfi t ot i or r d off, e redi r rie i e dirit: tom When in mat a l I p tade i liettt : edii : nrt st b: ;: libte'f6: : : :: : : h otr i n n Se 1 :1 : a e a p n l wr ;: :iiestui: A l vaarlitosili declare d,ireor respect to va t t ;: h and a o riy t t i t w as n ot his mon ey O 11 ' ' ' ' - h' i on the arttiftheof fi :, described. w• wa s they wanted , rnp invite as editions of being threatened with flinging them if the bridge, (the defendants) bad beaten them there was not one jot of truth in it The disturbance of the Court of Requests, and he addedtl was entirely attributable to the intemperate i I tr i true ma tter of Mr. SWA ors , observed, that very,gros e respectability in attendance, who would prove that ag facr. "el" of lat eO h n e du h et i of the' th offieere assaults were sworn to ' ts an had to bring forward in - iglit case : ap o ti n ie t w he it p u a easo rt oftthhaetetohempdleafie= d as hewas . not trying the pear on their behalf a t t h e sessions. The other defenda n t, were th individually asked whether they wished to say any thi ng , They replied in the affirmative, and each of them declared most solemnly that tl officers of the Court of Requests were the aggressors.. The Pet of -the Fancy" gave hit word of honour that he never lif led his hand Against the officers—that he was merely a spectate r near where the disturbance took place, to witness a race, and Itat the coin plainents knowing him to be a public man, fixed ups m him. The Magistrates, M. SWAREY and D. KJWG, E having, consulted together, decided that Standish should e, Iter into his own recognizance in the sum of 401., and the rest o. the defend ants 20/. each, to appear at the next sessions to answr r anycharge 4 that may be preferred against them. A knot of six or eight obscure individuals, 'leaded by a Mr. B. Wills, yesterday engaged a room at the King's Head, in the Poultry, for the avowed' purpose of getting up a meeting to petition against the corn laws, I nit for the real purpose of achieving a little • ephemeral nc ,toriaty publishing to the world their antiquated not. ions upon things in general through the medium of the ne soPsPers• The reporters, who formed an immense major ity of the meeting, were vastly edified by hearing from it dr. Wills , &it Of all an harangue to prove, what nobody ha I hitherto disputed, that the present system of corn laws must umi dergo revision ; and next, a still longer harangue, to prove, that any 'alteration in that system would produce i little or no benefit to the community, unless it were am aril° by a legislative enactment, that all the waste lam id the 'country should immediately be taken into cultivat ion, and that a minimum--namely, two bushels of wheat for each labourer—should be fixed for the rate of wag vs. Wills and his cronies - , who are evidently men of c ply °", idea, seem to have forgotten that much of what WS 1 calle d waste land, and was reclaimed during the war, has i cently been throWn out of cultivation, on account of its utter incapability to return any thing like a remuneratie to the labour and capital 'bestowed upon it by th culti vator, even under the present system of resided( in and monopoly enjoyed by the agriculturist ; and that thm of a minimum rate of wages for. the labourer no al be utterly useless, without fixing at the same time a inn timw" for the state of distress to which his employer may. be re. duced. The old proverb, which sap, that half a I. oaf is better Amin no bread, ought to teach the - open itives throughout thecountry, that it is better (Or them to have small wages`than none at all;. for it is as clear as that some of Mr.\Vills's associates of yesterday wore dirty s hints and darned stockings, that when the' capitalist finds th• it he cannot'affOrd to pay the operative the •Winimuin at w Bich Mr.Wills wishes the legislature to fix his wages, he must ;s i a a matter of course, leave him to get- through his misery a s e can, withOut any wages' at all. A resolution was carried to pre sent a requisition to the Lord Mayor', calling upon him to er vine a public meeting of the inhabitants of London on the subject of the corn laws ; but when the requisition W presented to some gentlemen who had en price tered the r. loo) refused 't6,sign it, though friendly to the mai" during the discussion anti had taken some part lab 4 ' 1. i t c ts a purported to have in view—nay more, they requeste td reporter, as Matter of favour, not to mention that thcy u t i taken any share in the proceedings of the day. Th e etn I d ring other circumstance worthy of notice which °Wee - du a , 4 the time our reporter attended, the sitting of this se Mayor had told him that he was ready, %when prof' erg } . coterie, was an annunciation from Mr. Wills, that the I a oru ealled upon, to summon his FelloW-Citizens to the conside don of the, propriety of petitioning for an alteration nt, t he present corn laws, and of inquiring into the cause ° I • t • distress now prevailing. By a singular hallucination cf„liri* tellect;: Mr. Wills, in commenting on this piece of i mation, told the meeting, or rather the reporters, wl , o a t " tended it;that be deemed an inquiry into the c auses 4 J tA i r distress more necessary than an inquiry into the be st 10 of relieving it—a mode of proceedinr, which appears to as 'wise as to let a man clic, and Lien to set his el- actor about inquiring what were the SymptoMs and the car $e 5 the disease which terminated in his death. LONDON DIARY, SATURDAY, SETT. 0 (At the Court of Commissioners.) J. Bourne, Agries-place, Waterloo-road, picture-denier._ ,..it 11 J. B. and E. Broomfield, We'worth, builders g J. Crossley, Union-court. l3road-street, merchant G. Harris, Battersea-fields, warehouse-keeper • 1 W. F. How, South Sea-chambers, merchant ' It Knight and Lacey, Paternoster-row, booksellers 0 S. Matthews, King-street, Clerkenwell, brewer ' COUNTRY DIARY, SATURDAY, Sam 9. s , J. J. Baylis, Leeds, at the COurt-konse,' Lrede ............. i i Ca' rgan and Co., Chippin.-Norton—Hart, Chipping Nor i eu T. Crosley, Wakefield—g i egulions-house, Wakefield ......... ...• W. Fearnside, Livirsedge.:—Sessions-house, WakefieW ..... ...• • Holmes and Bdwards, Derby—King's Head, Derby ...... if R. Jackson, WalsallStork, BirMingham ................. • I D. Jackson, Birmingham-Hotel, Birmingham ........... ..• • e W. Martin, Runcorn—Star, Manchester .............•••.•"" u G. Palfrey man, Crag-4White b s, Manchester ...........•.. •••• 1 .2 J. Price, Aston—Hotel, Birmingham .... ..... ........ S. Wheeldon; Derby--1Kinea Arms, Derby .............. ..• ,h e 101' DELICATE ADVEATISEMENT.—We copy. Cil lowing advertisement front e recent numoer 0. bliAd nani's Messenger, an English newspaper Pia ii • Paris : 7 - n b r of Maxittauss.,—M. brunet, known during & " th ': Po year's for facilitating marriages, equally advantageou s r Aun di.' sexes, and who'se extensive relations with society, 01 ," 4 kW. cretion and delicacy, warrant the confidence reposed ' "" n : i t l yu to intimate that there . 4 .at present TO i ' 0 0,0 lady, aged 2 2. of a most agreeable countenance, liss i "f on e, b*/' francs ; 2. One, aged 20; having 120,000 franc* ' /. itis* ing . 160,000 francs ; 4. O ne , h a vi ng 175,000 03'11'0600 francs of yearly itusmte.—Apply to M. 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Strvall' 69 .'....:Ships sold, BIRTHS. ` 0 "/ On the 4th inst., the lady of N a thaniel Wells, 1:*(1', field, of a dau g ht er . - `I" Abbot, On the 6th i nst ., i n E uston - p l ace , the lady 0 1 Esq., of Doctors''Commons, of a daughter. f r d-ri On the 2d in s t. Mr. Stephen Cannon, of Bock worth, of a son. the .- - f irc On thi ----------- 5th inst., It st. werblirefegnerby, b y 12./ il : MARRIED. 0 nm, Fox, RA.,, Ambrose Moore, of Milk-etreet, LoodiPi 04. to Harriet, eldes daghter o Francis Fox, of b's 1 " . Pi' of" AtlilillbroOk t , Ha n nts, i Dr. f De Clement Smith, of thcbtrn 11 4, of rey, to. Mary Anne, widow of Captain J. Wil lininIft __ Monghyr, Bengal. by t he I lic ' On the Slat ult., at Christ Church,- Spitalltelds, of per Thomas Gregory, M.A., Mr. Joeeph coortbs, builder's, roon . nees-hill, to Amey, only daughter of Mr. Llorelr a ' ....--'-' lane, Doctors' C ommon , - tr Printed e No. 11 2, 8tiand, owe , 2: ,,,, , , wi• wilursunz. -......--.-....-, ........1....................---- - 'Sr' On the 27th of December, in ir;cliai of chOlirs inoti0,0001 Roger Mendleri, R:1V. On the 3 d init. , at Brentford-butts, Jetties 'Martin , r /q t . .; goo. Y ea " Captain of the eh" Woodford, in the service of to East India Company. ly , , .,..i r ' e On the 2d in t Ca • Richard I.. w of the Fifelo . ins t., Captain 0 I etbles. On the 5th inst., at Barnes, after a'rew tis1'' ilitlf4g' rfir• IIC Dale, of the Poultry, 1 0413 8 . Rich lja On the Slot ult. at. St. George's-place, Cantaloup , 4"a,t. En, in tl i tr, 6 0 , Yfret,F9f),....-te,11° - , -;-,,,Irich ____.-......-.- _ --_--r-- -,- .77. - kett ""